Stuff to do?
The city has a lack of things to do and ways to make money or everything is just stupid expensive. But for things to do, can we please get a venue like a nightclub/bar/cafe thing that can have jobs or not; that is not player owned? Something for people to hang out at?
Also why is there not req stuff?
- Tennis
- Basketball
- Arm wrestling
- Beer pong
- Golf
- Gym
These things being missing kinda go back into there being nothing to do if you do not wish to stand around with other people.
Also can we get the pet store and purchasable pets?
And more solo job? Hot dog stand, etc. Stuff that you can work at reliably on your time to make some money.
We have Taco Libre which is a public business that has 3 positions for players to clock in at and work. This also provides a place for people to hang out at in the city. We will be expanding on this public business type in the future so there are more opportunities for players to engage in this type of work.
This isn't as easy as just adding a new item to a store but we do have some of these new features in the dev pipeline and they will be coming in a future release, along with other recreational activities. Currently you can fish, which also makes you some money, scuba dive, parachute, hike, bike, and race so we do have activities out there for players.
We've been wanting to get a pet system for a while but most of them are either stolen from NoPixel and could risk us facing a DMCA and having our server violate FiveM TOS, or they're old outdated garbage. However, this is something we will be doing at some point once we find the right option or make our own.
You mentioned taxi and fishing only in your post so maybe you're not aware of all of the solo jobs we have available. As far as getting more solo jobs, yes there will be a lot more jobs coming with future releases but we don't want to continue to support solo only jobs on our roleplay server. There's not much roleplay benefit to playing this game solo... if that's what you're looking for this isn't the place for it. The jobs we are focusing on for the future will be a hybrid that will have interaction with others while also offering some solo ability. Even some of our current public jobs allow you to coop with friends, and reward you with more pay for doing so. These public jobs are available so you are not "forced to do criminal stuff just to make money" as they make a good amount and are legal which means you won't have the risk of being arrested and fined.
Public jobs - Minimum pay is $5000/hour (This will surely pay for a lot of noodles and gas while allowing you to save up for larger purchases)
Garbage (Unlimited and coop)
Taxi (Unlimited and solo)
Trucking (Unlimited and Coop)
Taco Libre (Limited to 3 clocked in)
Player owned businesses
I have no doubt you're right on these things. They take people to run them and are not open jobs for the public. Those owners have limited schedules and may never be online when you are. Just the nature of the game here guys... every business can't be open all the time. We have a requirement for them to meet and there are a larger number of businesses so they can hopefully all be active at some point during a time where some players are on the server. Therefore, its logical to expect this system to work the way it is where you see that some businesses are available and open while you are playing. Vanilla unicorn isn't officially owned and operated right now as its in a state of us decided how we can make it more of a public location.
The Economy
I understand why you're perplexed by the economy. It isn't an easy thing to wrap your head around. If you're thinking to yourself... I can buy an orange for 0.50 at the grocery store, why the hell is it $40 here?!!? I would ask yourself this... where can you make $5000/ hour picking up garbage?
Whitelist jobs
Training process needs work and is a problem.
-Agreed
Money isn't good enough.
- You're right and I'm going to make a small increase to help that.
Fishing is bored to some people.
-Agreed but there is money to be made.
Walk around and RP and meet cool people.
-Agreed and this is very important for a RP server.
Pay $200+ for gas with an unemployment check of $150.
-There are public jobs as outlined above to make much better money, however... $150 unemployment checks come every 10 minutes and a full take of fuel should easily last you more than 10 minutes of driving.
Pay $40 for water and oranges and 200 for noodles and 70-500 for a taco
-See above, the economy isn't based on the real world pay and costs. Show me a garbage driver making $5000/hr. Also, tacos are free at taco libre and the employee make a pay check so you don't need to pay them. If they won't give it to you free then go someone else for food, there are lots of other food places in town you just might have to ask around to find them.